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The Professionals

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The Professionals were producer Joe Gibbs' house band at his Retirement Crescent studio from the early 1970s, featuring Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare and Earl "Chinna" Smith; working alongside engineer Errol Thompson as "The Mighty Two", they backed over 100 Jamaican number-one hits including Dennis Brown's "Money in My Pocket".

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Story · Well supportedThe house bands that built the Jamaican sound

Singers and producers changed by the week; the studio band underneath them almost never did.

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